World Arena has hosted many ISU events, including the Four Continents in 2006 and ’07 and will host it again next February. It last hosted the World Championships in 1975 when the World Arena was next to The Broadmoor hotel.

The USFS can use the dormitories at the U.S. Olympic Training Center near downtown.

“I don’t think it’ll be terribly hard to pull off,” Bibb said. “Obviously it’s a gigantic event. Certainly we’re capable of doing it. It’s a lot of work in a short time span. Usually you get a year or close to two to prepare.

“We’d have a month and a half.”

Russia and Finland have also submitted proposals to host the event. The ISU will decide by Thursday evening MDT. It has not ruled out cancelling the event although Bibb said she feels the ISU is leaning toward holding it.

“It’s horrific what’s going on in Japan right now,” Bibb said. “We have friends and colleagues over there and people we don’t know who are suffering. It’s been a stressful and difficult time for everyone involved. Those skaters absolutely feel terrible for the folks in Japan but feel they have a job to do and want to do it.

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